Amazon Adds Rooftop Solar

Amazon to Install Solar Panels to Power Datacenters

March 3, 2017 (Zacks Equity Research via Yahoo Finance)

“…E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up for its next project associated with renewable energy initiatives…[T]he firm will harness solar energy by installing solar panels on the roof of its fulfillment facilities across the world…As part of its commitment to advance green power, Amazon has plans of deploying large-scale solar systems on rooftops of more than 15 fulfillment and sortation centers in the U.S. this year. By 2020, around 50 data centers are expected to use solar energy…Amazon said that these solar panels could generate up to 80% of the annual energy requirements of a fulfillment center depending on the project, time of year and other factors. The company already has a network of wind and solar farms in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. Its largest wind farm is in Texas…This initiative by Amazon is the latest in a string of clean energy investments made by U.S. technology giants in recent months [like Google, Facebook, and Apple]…” click here for more

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